New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
LITERARY NOTES.

hstorv NJ the last reign in Spain 10 to DC puoenoo
m Count Morphy tho tutor and pr1vsse
Of King Alfonso Tho widowed queen 'pe l.m,. 80
hour with him every day In looking over documents 10
hating toit
". learn Through his own thoughtfulness, that Mr.
a.,r welcker who styles himself The American SNAKE
.n.ars has been giving reading Of his drama LOUIS
WV nj Edinburgh How the kindly Scots bore the III
fiction does not appear but that IL WAS one canno. NC
doubted by any who have the remarkable rubbish
which Mr.. Adair welcker has produced and caiieo
dramaA
NJ Mezieres. the Academician. has been trying 10
veaken the effect of NJ Taines recent candor concern
ing the superiority of English literature to French NJ
Epglishnan" he is reputed as saying, could nave VII"
ten Mont Oriol'" This not happy aiiuslon, 'o''
While II il certainly true that Englshman couio nav"
produced NJ de Maupasssnts latest novel; inc ieA' "
that no English author would have soled MS pen D! wiz
ing 90 shameless a story.
Mr. Maurice Thompson. who does no. hAo " nv
calls ANALYTICAL realism protests In me hoePe''"e
against novels written In this vein- was o"'o ~
fortune" he says, Ito see q young man 'aH q" Ae -
h hopd and walk alone 200 yards OF opcn GROUND
und.r che fire of 400 dism0unted troopers ana oeoer
ately cut down telegraph pole Whiie ne was cnoPPe
.wav At the tough cedar wood could plainly see the
splinters whrng away from the pole from Top 70
A. the whizzng bullets aimed at him, crashed "
ar seamed its sides with ragged scars Near py s'oou
brick chimney where house had been burned down;
twelve pound shot struck the pile, AID went tnnohng
to earth scattering Its bricks about some OF heh srA
ing the young soldiers legs. He did not wa'er' A'
regular us the beat of pendulum was the swing OF hA
axe and when the pole fell friends and foes Ved
In yelling their admiration of the young man as ne de-
his axe and returned to his place In
his command think OF that quiet hero now ana then
rs read ketc-drum novels which are sad 10 repre-
sent American life Truth. truth! cry the analysts
we give you truth Well If they do 1t is truth Oh
very unpicuresque and uninteresng sort Is hot 'ne
Kind of truth that has lift in III is not the KIND OF
truth that beges enthusiasm not the Kind OF truth
that makes one care whether the human race shall last
another century not Let me ASK one question. Is
of any consequence what becomes OF ADerica thenen
and women of these analytical novels are fair average
representatives Of the American peoplet HOW much
enthusiastic patriotism could be drummcd up IN peh"
of a country Inhabited chiefly by such people,
Thomas Hughes in his just published life Of James
Fraser Bishop Of Manchester, records an interesting
abatement made by Fraser when he was in this country
in '65 "Ten Mowbray," the future bishop wrote, he
ought az every English statesman or poi'iclan ought
to como and this country Nothing out actai oose
walton with ones eyes will satisfy man WHAT
future lies before it really believe 1t is sober lrn'h
howeyer boastuy uttered that IL is the greatest ana
most powerful nation in the world 1t is SO now IL VIII
undoubtedly be 50 twenty-five years hence contrasting
the energy the the openings the opportunities
here with the orpor tue exhaustion III" repetoh '
competition Of Europe feels in more senses tnan o"e
quite likes that ours Is the old ana THIS Is the nc"
world"
portrait of Thackeray taken from Laurcnees crayon
drawing is to be the fronspiece OF the next Seo"er
Mr.. Humphry Ward the Editor of "Men of the Time"
reveals the acthat Men invited to furnish their
own biographies. Some very amusing traits are e1'
hibi,ed in the replies The real celebrities are too mod
est and recenl. while the comparative poDodes respou
with an unlimited mass OF weary detail
The author Of the clever novel, "As Common Mortas
has written and will soon publish story OF NewNork
life This lady evidently knew her Brooklyn 1t is to be
hoped for the purposes novel that she knows
her New-York as we'll
correspondent OF walorrs Antiquarian says that he
heard from friend of ThacGeray that the novelist re-
ceived $4,000 for Esmond selling the book out ana
out for that sum- The price Of Pendcnns was S6oo
number.
w. r. jenkins announces new edition OF Victor
HuCos Les Miserables" The Old French editions are
out OF print aud the only pocurabe are costly
and cumbrons The edition is to be in five duodecimo
volumes They will be printed from new type and great
care will be taken with all the details Each volume Will
be issued separately and Fantine. the first Will be
ready about the middle OF April The price will put the
work within the reach Of people who buy books at
all.
The Omen Court Is new fortnightly publication
issued at Chicago 1t declares Its leading work. to be
"to continue the work Of The Inder." IL welcomes
free thought apparently all subjects. but It's initial
number gravitates toward phiosophc and social prob
lens mainly 1t contains papers "Society and the
Individual" Tho Need for Free Thought Education,
"The Basis OF Ethics" IA decidedly cutand again
topic, Monsm In Modern Philosophy and the Agnes
tic Attitude Mind" and similar sober and grave sub
jects Whether there very serious Journal
in Chicago is question considerable interest but
which time alone determine.
Charles Dickenss daughters and his Charles,
Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mark Twain, Edmund Yates and
many other welLknow people contributors TO the
forthcoming book, Dickens Portrayed by Pen and